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Daily network digest

Friday, February 20, 2026

Directed information-flow networks for this session, covering US equities, Cryptocurrency, Foreign exchange. Each class is estimated independently over a trailing one-year window; the tables below rank the assets carrying the most influence within their own network.

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US equities

TGNA was the most central name, carrying 3.31× the influence of an average node across 1495 stocks.

stocks
1495
Density
0.179
Clustering
0.433
Diameter
2

Most central

Ranked by PageRank within the session's directed network. “vs average” shows influence relative to a node with no advantage — 1.00× would mean perfectly ordinary.

Symbol#PageRank vs averageReceives fromSends toStrongest outgoing
TGNA 1 0.00222 3.31× 33.1% 13.4% GFL, SSNC, OGE, BKH, CTRE
SCHW 2 0.00211 3.16× 33.9% 15.7% CME, MLM, NDSN, CPK, VRSN
RY 3 0.00207 3.10× 29.6% 6.6% AIG, PB, COR, CUBE, FSV
CPT 4 0.00184 2.75× 31.9% 12.9% BNS, BAC, CUBE, IDXX, FTNT
BNS 5 0.00182 2.71× 28.1% 12.4% EA, VLTO, TFSL, AVY, GD
DBX 6 0.00181 2.70× 35.2% 22.6% AER, BKH, GDDY, ET, OHI
AIG 7 0.00180 2.69× 32.5% 22.8% NHI, PFG, UNP, MANH, ACM
STE 8 0.00178 2.66× 29.9% 14.5% ALLE, RY, AVA, CPT, PECO
HIG 9 0.00168 2.52× 29.8% 16.7% DLB, ALLE, CUZ, FWONK, MLM
FTS 10 0.00168 2.52× 24.2% 16.5% AMH, SSNC, EQIX, FITB, LOW

Rising influence vs 2026-02-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AM 0.001680.00010 +0.00157
MTCH 0.001460.00010 +0.00136
ESI 0.001370.00010 +0.00127
FG 0.001360.00010 +0.00126
DB 0.001330.00010 +0.00123

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AN 0.000100.00163 -0.00153
ETN 0.000100.00160 -0.00150
LAD 0.000100.00128 -0.00118
MPC 0.000100.00126 -0.00116
BF.A 0.000100.00126 -0.00116

Cryptocurrency

MVUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.18× the influence of an average node across 407 assets.

assets
407
Density
0.126
Clustering
0.367
Diameter
2

Most central

Ranked by PageRank within the session's directed network. “vs average” shows influence relative to a node with no advantage — 1.00× would mean perfectly ordinary.

Symbol#PageRank vs averageReceives fromSends toStrongest outgoing
MVUSD 1 0.01273 5.18× 56.9% 36.2% GNOUSD, GSTUSD, AIRUSD, ZROUSD, BLZUSD
RBCUSD 2 0.01155 4.70× 56.9% 13.3% MORPHOUSD, ETHFIUSD, CQTUSD, LIFIIIUSD, WHBTUSD
SRMUSD 3 0.00950 3.87× 51.5% 17.5% PAXGUSD, VARAUSD, LRCUSD, AAVEUSD, 1INCHUSD
EURRUSD 4 0.00945 3.85× 56.9% 8.9% EULUSD, APENFTUSD, STGUSD, NMRUSD, ARKMUSD
XAUTUSD 5 0.00910 3.70× 52.7% 36.7% IOTXUSD, SEIEUR, MASKUSD, XDCUSD, PYRUSD
DNTUSD 6 0.00903 3.67× 45.1% 6.2% REPUSD, OMGUSD, AAVEUSD, MNGOUSD, NEONUSD
UOSUSD 7 0.00878 3.57× 41.1% 18.2% FLRUSD, ZEXUSD, TRBUSD, RUNEUSD, SYRUPUSD
MXCUSD 8 0.00872 3.55× 45.3% 46.3% ELAUSD, NEOUSD, BITUSD, SPELLUSD, STORJUSD
SWEATUSD 9 0.00861 3.50× 46.1% 25.9% KAVAUSD, DIMOUSD, XRPBTC, MDTUSD, POLUSD
TRXUSD 10 0.00844 3.43× 45.8% 20.2% CQTUSD, PONDUSD, XRTUSD, TIMEUSD, ANKRUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-02-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MVUSD 0.012730.00527 +0.00745
EURRUSD 0.009450.00250 +0.00695
SRMUSD 0.009500.00260 +0.00690
DNTUSD 0.009030.00224 +0.00679
MXCUSD 0.008720.00302 +0.00570

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CSPRUSD 0.002080.00823 -0.00615
SBRUSD 0.004870.01075 -0.00588
RBCUSD 0.011550.01699 -0.00544
FLRUSD 0.001680.00687 -0.00519
AIRUSD 0.007300.01242 -0.00512

Foreign exchange

AUDBRL was the most central name, carrying 10.46× the influence of an average node across 824 pairs.

pairs
824
Density
0.048
Clustering
0.473
Diameter

Most central

Ranked by PageRank within the session's directed network. “vs average” shows influence relative to a node with no advantage — 1.00× would mean perfectly ordinary.

Symbol#PageRank vs averageReceives fromSends toStrongest outgoing
AUDBRL 1 0.01269 10.46× 37.5% 10.0% USDRUB, DKKPKR, NZDIDR, HKDTHB, GBPHTG
PENCAD 2 0.00886 7.30× 27.7% 6.9% USDRUB, PENMXN, HKDTHB, GBPHTG, EURHKD
CLPGBP 3 0.00856 7.05× 26.7% 8.6% DKKTRY, EURTRY, TRYDKK, GBPHTG, PENMXN
COPBRL 4 0.00856 7.05× 26.7% 8.3% USDRUB, HKDEUR, DKKHKD, USDCZK, CZKUSD
GBPCLP 5 0.00846 6.97× 26.6% 8.4% DKKTRY, TRYDKK, EURTRY, THBUSD, USDCHF
CHFTHB 6 0.00835 6.88× 29.4% 7.0% DKKPKR, GBPHTG, PENMXN, THBHKD, HKDTHB
GBPMGA 7 0.00834 6.87× 6.4% 2.1% RSDGBP, CHFRSD, JPYRSD, GBPRSD, GBPGHS
COPUSD 8 0.00830 6.84× 26.7% 8.4% USDCHF, THBHKD, HKDTHB, CNYCAD, CNYSGD
COPMXN 9 0.00827 6.82× 27.0% 8.5% USDCHF, PENMXN, HKDTHB, THBUSD, CNYCAD
DOPUSD 10 0.00821 6.76× 6.6% 2.3% GBPRSD, RSDGBP, CHFRSD, JPYRSD, GHSGBP

Rising influence vs 2026-02-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.012690.00158 +0.01111
CHFTHB 0.008350.00046 +0.00788
CLPGBP 0.008560.00191 +0.00664
GBPCLP 0.008460.00189 +0.00657
PENCAD 0.008860.00236 +0.00650

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.000320.00905 -0.00873
TWDSEK 0.002350.01045 -0.00810
EURILS 0.001600.00759 -0.00599
MYRZAR 0.000340.00560 -0.00526
GBPBRL 0.000340.00460 -0.00427

How these numbers are produced

Transfer entropy measures how much knowing one asset's past reduces uncertainty about another's future, beyond what that asset's own past already explains. Unlike correlation it is directional, so an edge from A to B means A's moves carry information about B's next move — not merely that they move together.

Each night we estimate transfer entropy across three universes — roughly 1,500 US common stocks, 350 cryptocurrencies and 550 currency pairs — over a trailing one-year window, conditioning on a broad market series so that shared market-wide movement is discounted rather than counted as a link. Edges surviving the significance filter form that session's directed network, from which the centrality figures on this page are computed. Coverage differs by class: crypto reaches back to January 2024, equities to August 2025, so older digests may cover fewer classes.

PageRank ranks an asset by how much influence flows into it from other influential assets. In-degree and out-degree are the share of the network sending information to it and receiving information from it. Betweenness captures how often an asset sits on the shortest path between two others.

The volatility watch score is a model estimate of the probability that an asset sees elevated volatility in the coming sessions. It is a research output, not a forecast of price direction, and nothing on this page is investment advice.